Political Notebook: DA race, registration update and a tweet

Frye backing Brewer for DA

Former San Diego councilwoman and mayoral candidate Donna Frye has climbed aboard the Robert Brewer bandwagon, endorsing the San Diego attorney’s bid to against incumbent District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis in 2014.

Frye said she’s backing Brewer because he’s “committed to keeping politics out of the DA’s office.”

She also complained that Dumanis endorsed Carl DeMaio for mayor last year after her own bid for that office fell flat with city voters and after earlier suggesting it was wrong for a sitting DA to endorse candidates.

In an open letter to District Attorney employees, Brewer said the three terms or 12 years that Dumanis has held the post is enough. He vowed to stay away from endorsements and not use the office as a platform to run for another elective office.

Brewer’s campaign slogan is “Public Safety … Without Politics.”

Dumanis has gone unchallenged in her last two DA elections. She announced several months ago that she would seek another four-year term.

Sanchez playing it coy

Longtime Oceanside City Councilwoman Esther Sanchez is disavowing any connection to a Facebook page featuring her picture and a “Esther Sanchez for State Assembly 2014” headline.

Sanchez told U-T San Diego she did not put up the page and has no idea who did.

She acknowledged, however, that she is forming an exploratory committee and looking at an array of potential elective offices.

A few days earlier, she told the U-T that her service on the California Coastal Commission had inspired her “to look beyond” Oceanside.

“I’m looking at my options,” she said.

Dems hold registration edge

The latest report from the office of the San Diego County Registrar shows Democrats holding a 22,335-vote registration lead over Republicans countywide.

Democrats number 549,853 compared to 527,518 Republicans. Independents account for another 401,062 voters as of the May report.

In the 52nd Congressional District, where the GOP’s former San Diego councilman and mayoral candidate Carl DeMaio has declared his candidacy against freshman Democrat Scott Peters, Republicans hold a slight registration edge — 136,010 to 129,506.

The fight for the right to represent that district comes in how its 112,000 registered independents break on Election Day.

Medal update

The effort by Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Alpine, to secure a Congressional Gold Medal for two former U.S. Navy SEALs slain in the Sept. 11, 2012, attack on the American diplomatic outpost in Benghazi, Libya, has secured 33 co-sponsors to date.

Hunter is proposing the medal for Ty Woods of Imperial Beach and Glen Doherty of Encinitas in recognition of their efforts in protecting more than two dozen Americans at Benghazi. The two private security contractors were eventually killed by mortar fire. Also killed were the U.S. ambassador, J. Christopher Stevens, and San Diego native and State Department information officer Sean Smith.

Don’t expect any quick action on Hunter’s bill. The ongoing House Oversight Committee investigation into the Benghazi attack led by Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Vista, is expected to keep the legislation on the sidelines.